Sapezanskaia, Ina (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
Metastable austenitic stainless steels feature an abundance of different deformation mechanisms, which contribute to the distinguished mechanical properties of these alloys. However, these properties ...
Camposilvan, Erik (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia stabilized with 3 mol% of yttria (3Y-TZP) is a biocompatible ceramic showing superior mechanical properties, which are partly the consequence of phase transformation: ...
Abt, Tobias (Date of defense: 2014-07-11)
The thesis at hand deals with the modification of cyclic butylene terephthalate (CBT) with the aim to improve its final properties. CBT polymerizes in an entropically-driven ring-opening polymerization ...
Wang, Liang (Date of defense: 2015-12-16)
Foam-like aerogels based on biodegradable polymers and sodium montmorillonite (Na+-MMT) clay were prepared through an environmentally friendly freeze-drying process. Both synthesized and bio-based ...
Cuadrado Lafoz, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-10-02)
Mechanical characterization of micro-volume systems, as thin films or micro-sized phases embedded in multiphase materials, has attracted special interest in the last decades since different micromechanical ...
Picas Anfruns, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
On account of environmental and safety related requirements, the majority of the most popular automotive manufacturers convey to introduce Ultra High Strength Steels (UHSS) and Press Hardened Steels ...
Herranz Díez, Carolina (Date of defense: 2014-07-22)
According to a study of the European Commission, approximately one million hips are replaced by prostheses worldwide every year. The interaction of the human body with foreign materials that are subjected ...
Sachot, Nadège (Date of defense: 2014-07-03)
Most of the conventional organic-inorganic composite materials developed for bone tissue engineering do not possess intimate interactions between their constituents. As a consequence, they generally ...
Gustavsson, Mikael (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
This doctoral thesis explores how ion sensors can provide spatial and temporal control of specific cellular and biomaterial activity related to bone tissue engineering applications. First it was ...
Varillas, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-06-17)
This study aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms which govern the development of dense defect networks in nanoscale crystal plasticity, either under contact and uniaxial loading conditions, with ...
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (44)
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (21)
616.7 - Pathology of the organs of locomotion. Skeletal and locomotor systems (6)
617 - Surgery. Orthopaedics. Ophthalmology (4)